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why is this organization providing a venue for musings on how to strengthen Chinese fascism the right way, which is what the rule of formerly Communist Party in China currently is? Musings that end with an advice that one should only kill in moderation, not to repeat small though damaging mistakes of Uncle Joe?

So, any hopes of democratization in china are absurd and it will remain a staunchly and aggressively authoritarian regime. Got it. What I wouldn't give to hear Bill Clinton say he was wrong about supporting china entry into the WTO.

Although making a priority to combat graft in the army will tackle public disaffection and raise internal morale, yet observers say Xi may have to tread carefully. Many fear that his zeal serves most likely to eradicate the top brass, that might pose a threat to his leadership and to replace with those, who are loyal to him. He demands absolute obedience from the army, which "must resolutely conform to orders from the party Central Committee and the Central Military Commission".
No doubt corruption had reached an unprecedented level. Two former top generals, Guo Boxiong and Xu Caihou are said to have sold hundreds of positions, often for hundreds of thousands of dollars each, triggering the fear that the army has an inferior personnel. Besides kickbacks and embezzlement in procurement had led to cut corners and reduced efficiency. Officiers who have paid for their positions, may try to recoup the cost, creating a vicious circle of bribery.
Even if Xi has supporters within the army, who see corruption as sapping the discipline and quality of the PLA, no one is particularly keen to see their dirty laundry being washed in public. As the military ethos of unconditional obedience to superiors is still widespread, it takes time for the army to push through structural reforms.
Apart from securing the the PLA’s "loyalty", Xi's other main concern is an army, that has not been tested in combat for decades. He said once that a corrupt army had no "ability" to fight and win a war. He will take the opportunity to demonstrate China's growing might on September 3, when a high-profile military parade is scheduled to take place in Beijing. Officially, the march aims to commemorate the end of the second world war and to remind the world of the loss of millions of Chinese lives. But Xi hopes to send a message about his power over the military, that he may be China's most formidable leader since Mao. “Forgetting history is a betrayal,” he said earlier this month.
Does Pei believe that Xi fears of suffering the same fate as Nikita Khrushchev, who was ousted in "a palace coup" in 1964, "sponsored by the KGB", which without the blessing of the Red Army wouldn't have "succeeded"?
Indeed, time will tell, whether Xi would be able "to root out corruption in the PLA", which will be a "stroke of political genius". But then pushing too far would also prove his undoing, a lesson that Stalin had learned, by annihilating "the Red Army's officer corps on the eve of Nazi Germany's invasion".

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